scholarly journals Nepal “Ask me anything” Session: Responses to audience questions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Kaye ◽  
Caspar Groeneveld ◽  
Caitlin Moss ◽  
Björn Haßler ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level ◽  
International Good ◽  
Education Science

On Thursday, 30 April 2020, the EdTech Hub participated in an “Ask me anything” session for policy-makers and funders in Nepal. The session focused on designing high-quality, effective, distance education programmes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants included high-level officials from the Nepalese government (e.g., the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the Curriculum Development Office and the Education Review Office), representatives from development partners (e.g., the World Bank, UNICEF and USAID) and other education organisations (e.g., OLE Nepal).  The session was convened for two purposes. First, to consider international good practice and current trends in distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic, presented by the World Bank EduTech team and the EdTech Hub. Second, for the EdTech Hub team to gather questions from participants, to be able to target guidance specifically to the situation in Nepal.  This document provides answers to a consolidated list of 10 questions received from stakeholders during the session. To consolidate any overlap, we have occasionally combined multiple questions into one. In other cases, where multiple important issues required a focused response, we split apart questions.

Unveiling the Theoretical Mistakes in the World Bank Formation and its Implication on Survival of Africa Monetary Union

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Olatunji Abdul Shobande ◽  
Kingsley Chinonso Mark
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
World Bank Group ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Bank Group ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Developed Nations

Abstract The quest for urgent solution to resolve the world liquidity problem has continued to generate enthusiastic debates among political economists, policy makers and the academia. The argument has focused on whether the World Bank Group was established to enhance the stability of international financial system or meant to enrich the developed nations. This study argues that the existing political interest of the World Bank Group in Africa may serve as lesson learned to other ambitious African Monetary Union.

Migrant Remittances

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Waddell
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Migrant Remittances ◽  
To Come ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
The International Monetary Fund ◽  
Positive Effect

Untapped resources are hard to come by in the realm of international development. Migrant remittances, however, represent a relatively unexploited resource bank for developing countries. Still, researchers often debate the degree to which migrant remittances actually incite community development in practice. I rekindle the this theoretical discussion by comparing the development effects of household remittances with investments made through the remittance-channeling program 3×1 para migrantes in Guanajuato, Mexico. Regression analysis demonstrates that household remittances repress development outcomes across Guanajuato's 46 municipalities, while remittances invested through the 3×1 program have a positive effect on indicators of municipal wellbeing, including healthcare, education, and income. To my knowledge, this is the first attempt to systematically compare the development effects of household remittances with the development outcomes of remittances transferred through a government-supported program like 3×1 para migrantes. This research has meaningful implications for policy makers in migrant-sending regions around the world as well as agents of international development such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

scholarly journals Trade in Services-Economic Growth Nexus: An Analysis of the Growth Impact of Trade in Services in SADC Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2(J)) ◽  
pp. 58-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Maune
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Trade In Services ◽  
Trade Restrictions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Service Strategy ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Marginal Effects ◽  
The World ◽  
Literature Service

The article analysed the trade in services led growth in ten selected countries in the Southern African Development Community region using econometric regression models. Panel data obtained from the World Bank and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development databases for the period 1992 to 2015 was analysed. Five variables were used in the econometric analysis. The marginal effects of service and goods exports were positive while those of goods and service imports were negative and highly significant as was expected from literature. Service exports registered an impact that was almost threefold that of service imports and greater than goods exports. Policy-makers are encouraged to, clearly define their trade in service strategy and reduce or remove trade restrictions. The study is of importance to researchers, the private sector and government policymakers.

scholarly journals Multilateral aid to the rescue? Sectoral fragmentation of bilateral development aid and the role of the World Bank

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin C. Steinwand ◽  
Bernhard Reinsberg
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Allocative Efficiency ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Bilateral Aid ◽  
Donor Behavior ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level

Bilateral aid projects continue to proliferate in an uncoordinated fashion, leading to fragmented aid delivery, despite high-level political promises to reign in the practice. Frequently absent in the academic and policy debates is an exploration of which policy venues can be effective in changing donor behavior. In this paper, we explore the role of the World Bank in promulgating best practices and enhancing sectoral coordination among bilateral donors. The World Bank's size, policy clout, and its own publicly stated commitments should make it a prime candidate for enacting measures that can help reduce bilateral aid proliferation and fragmentation. We concentrate on sectoral aid allocations and identify possible venues through which the World Bank can affect bilateral donor behavior and increase allocative efficiency, including as Lead Partner, Balancer, and by leading by example through Best Practices. Based on project-level data from 1998 to 2013, we find that bilateral donors and the World Bank allocate projects in a complementary fashion into the same sectors. Furthermore, World Bank and bilateral project numbers move together, and there is some evidence that bilateral donors emulate World Bank behavior. There is no evidence that World Bank activities help to reduce bilateral aid fragmentation.

scholarly journals A Retrospective: Michael M. Cernea (1934–)

2021 ◽  
pp. 347-354
Author(s):  
Anthony Bebbington
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
House Staff ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Contact Sport ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Junior Researcher ◽  
The World ◽  
Romanian Academy ◽  
High Level ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Abstract‘Development anthropology is a contact sport,’ Michael Cernea likes to tell his students. His career, from junior researcher in the Romanian Academy of Sciences in the early 1960s to joining the World Bank in Washington D.C. in 1974 as its first-ever in house staff sociologist, and then advancing there successfully to the high level position of the World Bank’s Senior Advisor for Social Policies and Sociology is testament to this observation.

Global cardiovascular care: an overview of high-level political commitment

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 258-265
Author(s):  
Dominique Vervoort ◽  
Umang M Parikh ◽  
Ankit Raj ◽  
JaBaris D Swain
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Heart Diseases ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Surgical Services ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level ◽  
Cardiovascular Care

Background Six billion people worldwide lack access to safe, timely, and affordable cardiac surgical and interventional care when needed. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality and morbidity around the world, and include a significant surgical backlog of rheumatic and congenital heart diseases. Here, we review the political commitment by the WHO, the UN, and the World Bank to build and strengthen healthcare services for cardiovascular diseases, with a particular focus on cardiac surgical and interventional cardiology services around the world. Methods A literature search was performed in the WHO, UN, and World Bank Governing Body databases to identify policy documents mentioning curative cardiovascular disease care. The Governing Body documentation, the Institutional Repository for Information Sharing database of the WHO, and the Official Document System of the UN were used. Documents only discussing prevention of cardiovascular diseases were excluded. Results Fifty-nine unique documents were identified, including 56 from the WHO, 3 from the World Bank, and none from the UN; 12 (20.4%) documents mentioned cardiac surgery, and 6 (10.2%) contained some actionable language to incorporate cardiac surgical services, but none was explicitly dedicated to cardiac surgical services. Conclusion Although growing, high-level political commitment for curative cardiovascular health services remains minimal. Increased awareness is needed to develop comprehensive cardiovascular care that is necessary to mitigate the increasing burden of premature morbidity and mortality from cardiac disease, and to work towards the Sustainable Development Goals and Universal Health Coverage.

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